“Un país para volver”: análisis narrativo del Plan de retorno a España
; Alejo Jaime, Antonio ; Fernández Vicente, María José Otros responsables
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08/2024
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Universidad Politécnica Salesiana
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Cada vez más gobiernos lanzan iniciativas explícitamente dirigidas a estimular el retorno de sus emigrantes. En España, el Estado puso en funcionamiento su primera política para el retorno, el “Plan de Retorno a España”, en 2019. Tomando como caso de estudio este plan, el artículo examina la política española para el retorno y la ubica en un contexto más amplio, tanto político como histórico, con objeto de comprender los límites y sesgos de esta medida ante los diversos perfiles de emigrantes españoles. Adoptando el enfoque narrativo de las políticas como perspectiva teórico-analítica y el análisis de contenido como herramienta metodológica, identificamos que, mediante la nueva estrategia narrativa, se ha producido en España un cambio paradigmático en la manera de pensar, desde la esfera pública, el regreso de los ciudadanos españoles asentados en el extranjero. De una mirada asistencial, se ha pasado a adoptar una perspectiva de tipo neoliberal (instrumental y utilitarista), manteniendo, eso sí, una concepción de “la vuelta al país de origen” más próxima a las teorías migratorias predominantes en el siglo XX que a los conceptos científico-sociales contemporáneos. Encontramos, además, una tensión entre las narrativas políticas de España y de la Unión Europea respecto a la movilidad intraeuropea, y un desfase entre la mirada estatal y las realidades migratorias actuales en lo relativo al retorno en contextos de gran incertidumbre económico-laboral.
A growing number of governments are introducing initiatives explicitly aimed at stimulating the return of their emigrants. In Spain, the state launched its first policy for return, the “Plan of Return to Spain”, in 2019. Taking this plan as a case study, the article examines the Spanish policy for return and places it in a broader context, both political and historical, in order to understand the limits and biases of this measure in the face of the diverse profiles of Spanish emigrants. Adopting the narrative policy framework as a theoretical-analytical perspective and content analysis as a methodological tool, the authors of this paper identify that, through the new narrative strategy, a paradigmatic change has been produced in Spain in the way of understanding, from the public sphere, the return of Spanish citizens living abroad. Instead of an assistance-based approach, a neoliberal (instrumental and utilitarian) perspective has been adopted, maintaining, however, a conception of “the return to the country of origin” that is closer to the predominant migratory theories of the 20th century rather than to contemporary social-scientific notions. A tension between the policy narratives of Spain and the European Union in relation to Intraeuropean mobility, and a gap between the state view and the current migratory reali
A growing number of governments are introducing initiatives explicitly aimed at stimulating the return of their emigrants. In Spain, the state launched its first policy for return, the “Plan of Return to Spain”, in 2019. Taking this plan as a case study, the article examines the Spanish policy for return and places it in a broader context, both political and historical, in order to understand the limits and biases of this measure in the face of the diverse profiles of Spanish emigrants. Adopting the narrative policy framework as a theoretical-analytical perspective and content analysis as a methodological tool, the authors of this paper identify that, through the new narrative strategy, a paradigmatic change has been produced in Spain in the way of understanding, from the public sphere, the return of Spanish citizens living abroad. Instead of an assistance-based approach, a neoliberal (instrumental and utilitarian) perspective has been adopted, maintaining, however, a conception of “the return to the country of origin” that is closer to the predominant migratory theories of the 20th century rather than to contemporary social-scientific notions. A tension between the policy narratives of Spain and the European Union in relation to Intraeuropean mobility, and a gap between the state view and the current migratory reali
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